Ricostar Quotes & Sayings

Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order. — William Shakespeare

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say "seeing"? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath's sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a "host" who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and "take advantage of" Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves. — C.S. Lewis

We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time. — Alex Bogusky

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation. — Vikram Seth

When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza - a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of in-doors with the freedom of out-doors, and it is so pleasant to inspect your thermometer there, but the country round about was such a picture, that in berry time no boy climbs hill or crosses vale without coming upon easels planted in every nook, and sunburnt painters painting there. — Herman Melville

Knowledge is the wisdom of one passing on the accumulation of their experience to others. — Michael Hanson

Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds. — Heather Headley

Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care *most* about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on. — Joe Satriani